State-mafia negotiation.
Pg asks for confirmation of convictions, 12 years for Dell'Utri
State-mafia negotiation, the Supreme Court confirms the acquittal of former minister Mannino
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23 September 2021 In the afternoon came the sentence of the Palermo judges in the trial on the "state-mafia negotiation", the secret dialogue that men of the state would have had with the top management of Cosa Nostra during the season of the massacres, between 1992 and 1993
. Court of Assizes of Palermo acquitted the former senator Marcello Dell'Utri ("for not having committed the deed"), the former generals of the Ros Mario Mori and Antonio Subranni ("because the deed does not constitute a crime"), in the first instance they had been sentenced to 12 years. Sentence reduced to 27 years for boss Leoluca Bagarella while the sentence was confirmed to the doctor Antonino Cinà at 12 years.
The appeal process began on April 29, 2019. The prosecution, represented by the substitutes pg Sergio Barbiera and Giuseppe Fici, at the end of the indictment of June 7 asked for the rejection of the appeals and the confirmation of the first degree convictions.
In the first instance the Court of Assise, in May 2018, had sentenced the boss Leoluca Bagarella to 28 years in prison, Dell'Utri to 12 years and the former carabinieri of the Ros Mario Mori and Antonio Subranni and Antonino Cinà, doctor and loyal to Totò Riina.
The former captain of the carabinieri Giuseppe De Donno and Massimo Ciancimino, son of Vito, had been sentenced to 8 years, then removed and prescribed.